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13 thoughts on “THE VIEW FROM CULVER DOWN”

“It is impossible to imagine a prettier spot” said Queen Victoria of Osborne House, her palatial holiday home on the Isle of Wight.
“One of the best pub views in the UK” said Retired Martin of the Culver Haven Inn.
I’m now starting to understand the attraction of the Isle of Wight. .

Top effort – that’s quite a trip out there. Though the logic of paying a couple of quid for a perfectly drinkable beer then not drinking it (all) may elude some of your readers, especially those from Birkby.

I’m not sticking up for them, but Huddersfield is only a small town (pop 163k) and I would submit, the town centre consists wholly of that part within or immediately adjacent to the inner ring road. Furthermore, people in Huddersfield consistently refer to the different areas of the town, almost as if they are small villages. For instance, if asked where Magic Rock Tap Room is, a local person would say, ‘Oh, it’s in Birkby.’ So as to distinguish it from Moldgreen or far Town or Waterloo or wherever. Even you southerners say (spoken in a posh southern voice), ‘Oh it’s in Chelsea’, or, ‘Kensington.’ When everyone knows they are just part of London city centre.

Huddersfield might end at the ring road as far as the town’s residents are concerned but surely a publication such as the GBG is aimed at t’other 99.7% of the population for whom it extends for another mile or so.